Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Seraphina’s POV 1

The drive back to Silver Moon Harbor felt like racing through a nightmare where the road kept stretching longer with each mile, no

matter how hard I pressed the accelerator. My hands gripped the steering wheel so tightly my knuckles had gone white, and I could taste copper in my mouth from where I’d bitten my lip hard enough to draw blood.

My phone had gone completely black after that final call with Ophelia, the screen cracked and unresponsive no matter how frantically I

pressed the power button. Now it was nothing but a useless piece of plastic and metal, cutting me off from any updates about Adrian’s

situation.

“Please,” I whispered to any god who might be listening, pressing the dead phone against my chest like a talisman. “Please let him be safe.

I’ll do anything. Just let my baby be okay.”

The moment I reached the school parking lot, I was out of the car and running toward the building on legs that felt like jelly. My high

heels clicked frantically against the asphalt as I raced toward the main entrance, my heart hammering so hard against my ribs I thought

it might burst.

The front doors were locked-of course they were locked, school had ended hours ago. I pounded on the glass with both fists, not caring

that I probably looked like a madwoman, until a janitor finally appeared from somewhere in the depths of the building.

“Ma’am, school’s been closed for-”

“My son!” I gasped, pressing my face against the glass. “Someone took my son! I need to speak with his teacher, with anyone who was

here, please!”

The janitor’s expression softened as he took in my obvious distress. He unlocked the door and stepped aside to let me in. “What’s your boy’s name? I can try calling Mrs. Henderson at home.”

“Adrian Knight,” I said, my voice breaking on his name. “He’s in Mrs. Henderson’s class. Someone picked him up who wasn’t supposed to.”

Mrs. Henderson arrived within twenty minutes. She found me sitting in the hallway outside her classroom, my head in my hands as I

through the panic attacks

Oh dear, what’s

at her through eyes that felt swollen from crying. “Someone took Adrian. You let someone

“The woman said she was his aunt. She had identification-her last

an emergency at work and had asked her to pick him

like?” I managed to ask, though I already suspected I knew the

to know details about you and Adrian…” Mrs. Henderson trailed off, guilt flooding her features as understanding dawned. “Oh God. Oh, Seraphina, I’m so sorry. I thought she

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written across her kind face. “I need to borrow your

could barely manage to remove my SIM card from the broken

Henderson’s phone.

phone connected to the network, I dialed Valerie’s number from memory. My blood turned to ice as the phone began

echoing in the empty

answered on the second

is my son?” I didn’t bother with greetings or

bubbled through the speaker with sickening cheerfulness, like she was calling to chat

weather instead of committing kidnapping. “My, my, you

Each word

Probably.” Her laugh was light and musical. “I really couldn’t say for certain,

a nearby desk to keep from collapsing as the implications of her words hit me like physical blows.

old! Where

“I’m sure he’ll turn up eventually. Children usually do, don’t

anyway.”

I whispered, my voice carrying every ounce of maternal fury I possessed. “I will tear your

bleed to death if anything

violence! Really, Sera, motherhood hasn’t improved your temper at all.” Valerie’s voice was positively dripping with false

willing to tell you where I left the little darling.

you want?” The words tasted

course. Harold is quite generous-he’s even willing to raise that

already told you no,” I said, my voice growing stronger with each word. “I’m not

are, Valerie said. “Because if you don’t show up at the Knight house within two hours, ready to apologize

might